July 2025
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The Growing Demand For Fractional CTO’s | Why Every Startup Wants a Fractional C-Suite
Could your next role be a part-time role as a fractional CTO? Or are you looking to hire a technical lead but don’t want to commit to a full time employee? Startups are under immense pressure to move fast, innovate constantly, and do it all without burning through capital. But there’s a growing secret weapon…
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Lessons From Building A Stellar Options Contract
In this tutorial I’ll be going through everything I learned while creating a Soroban smart contract for a call option. There are some interesting code snippets and gotcha’s for Soroban developers below but let’s start with the basics, Options 101. James On YouTube Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z8FHVllP_D0 | Subscribe What Are DeFi Options? Financial options…
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Your First Rust Smart Contract Using Stellar
In this tutorial we are going to deploy your first rust based smart contract using Stellar Soroban. James On YouTube Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/P8RuX7Ymu5Q | Subscribe ✨ Hello World Rust Smart Contract Let’s start by heading over to soropg.com Copy and paste this code into the editor Replace James with whatever you want to write…
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Life 3.0 Summary – Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark proposes a provocative and methodical exploration of humanity’s future in the age of artificial general intelligence. The book’s core thesis is that artificial intelligence will fundamentally transform life on Earth, and the direction of this transformation depends on choices we make today technological, philosophical, and governance related. Tegmark divides the evolution of life…
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How Coinbase Commerce Lets Merchants Keep More Revenue And Reach A Global Market
Imagine waking up to a dashboard that shows overnight sales from three continents, settled in Bitcoin, USDC, and Ether. Each payment final, fraud proof, and already in your private wallet. No chargebacks. No rolling reserves. No credit card processing fees. That promise, more than any headline about blockchain, is why thousands of entrepreneurs are adding…
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Decentralized Identity Systems
A few summers back I watched an Ethereum based microlending protocol bleed 78% of its liquidity in 48 hours, not because its code failed but because it could not tell real borrowers from bots. If an economy cannot distinguish one human from another, the promise of web3 and decentralized finance stays hypothetical. Today I want…
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Storing User Data with Rust Structs and Enums
In Soroban we model contract state with Rust types. For example, the SoroMarket contract defines a Rust struct for each user’s bets and an enum for the market outcome. Here is a simplified version of the code: Here Outcome holds the global state of the contract as a single enum variable and Bets is a…
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NFT Royalties | New OpenZeppelin Library For Stellar
In this tutorial we are going to dive into the new NFT token extension for royalties on Stellar. James On YouTube Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/17AGbMMBEz8 | Subscribe NFT royalties provide a mechanism for ensuring that creators continue to benefit from secondary sales of their work. With the latest release of OpenZeppelin’s NFT extensions for Soroban…
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The Personal MBA Summary – Josh Kaufman
At its core, The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman argues that traditional business school education is neither necessary nor cost effective for acquiring practical business knowledge. Instead, individuals can attain a comprehensive and high quality business education through focused self study, deliberate practice, and real world application. Kaufman presents a self education framework and an…
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Ledger vs Trezor Hardware Wallets
How I Found the Best Hardware Wallet After Testing Both Market Leaders (And Why Most People Pick Wrong) Hardware wallets represent the gold standard for cryptocurrency security, yet most investors make their choice based on marketing rather than meaningful analysis. After five years of testing both Ledger and Trezor devices across different use cases, I’ve…
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Hello World In Solidity
Your first smart contract deployment represents a fundamental shift in how you think about software. Unlike traditional applications that run on centralized servers, smart contracts execute on a distributed network of thousands of computers worldwide. Once deployed, your code becomes permanent, transparent, and permissionless. This immutability creates both opportunity and responsibility. Smart contracts have facilitated…
